Club of the Month

[AndyPark]

Goes to "Darlington 1883"

http://www.evostikleague.co.uk/evo-stik ... nth-21589/

[Mr_Tibbs]

Quite right too!

[theoriginalfatcat]

But not the 1883 bit

[Darlo will]

Who the hell are Darlington 1883? Never heard of them - must be some FA mistake

[AIDO]

When you read the Evostik blurb .... they give us the award almost begrudgingly .... praising Warrington for their efforts .....

... hey ho ...

http://www.evostikleague.co.uk/rams-are ... des-21598/

[Mr_Tibbs]

The award will be made by former Darlo keeper Alan Ogley's son, Mark, before the Doodson Cup game at home to Whitby.

[Bogratsteve]

Is this the 1st one MG's had since he joined us? Can't recall one last season and we deffo would not get one from the 6 fingered brigade

[Spyman]

I may have misread, but according to that, Warrington narrowly missed out despite winning 2 games, drawing 1, and losing 2 in the month.

Yep, a close run thing between 2-1-2 and 7-0-0.

[My opinion]

I may have misread, but according to that, Warrington narrowly missed out despite winning 2 games, drawing 1, and losing 2 in the month.

YeImp, a close run thing between 2-1-2 and 7-0-0.

I think the closest team to us were Spenny, I don't know exactly what their record for the month was but it was very good....If you add the Micky Mouse DCC game you could even argue it was better.

[Spyman]

I may have misread, but according to that, Warrington narrowly missed out despite winning 2 games, drawing 1, and losing 2 in the month.

YeImp, a close run thing between 2-1-2 and 7-0-0.

I think the closest team to us were Spenny, I don't know exactly what their record for the month was but it was very good....If you add the Micky Mouse DCC game you could even argue it was better.

Sorry, forgot about our youth team run-out against Spenny. Our record should read 7-0-1 if we're counting that.

[AIDO]

Not even the Northern Echo are including that one .... MG didn't go neither because it wasn't "his" team ... He left it to the youth coach.

I don't know why it irritates me so much when reading the Evostik blurb ... but it does! They use more words to describe how close Warrington were to winning the award than on us who actually won the bloomin thing as we steam rolled October!

[divas]

Warrington made it to the first round of the FA Cup which is why I imagine they ran us close.
Good job it's being presented at the cup game, awards like this have a tendency to bring bad luck.

[joejaques]

Hope it's not like manager of the month, which usually precedes a slump in form.

[Darlo Till I Die]

Who the hell are Darlington 1883? Never heard of them - must be some FA mistake

I think you find '1883' is on our official club name.

[MKDarlo]

No it aint - our name is Darlington Football Club. Always has been, always will be.

[RUMPLESTILTSKIN]

No it aint - our name is Darlington Football Club. Always has been, always will be.

You need to change MKDarlo to MKCanute. We are not Darlington Football Club.
Hopefully, one day we will be again.
Things don't change just because we don't like it.

[Darlogramps]

Who the hell are Darlington 1883? Never heard of them - must be some FA mistake

I think you find '1883' is on our official club name.

Depends what you class as the official name.

The one the rescue group bought the legal rights to in 2012, or the one we were forced into picking because of the FA.

[AIDO]

No it aint - our name is Darlington Football Club. Always has been, always will be.

You need to change MKDarlo to MKCanute. We are not Darlington Football Club.
Hopefully, one day we will be again.
Things don't change just because we don't like it.

... well that might be but at least St Neot's have got it right ..... Well done to them!

.... http://www.stneotstownfc.co.uk/news/sai ... rophy.html

[Spyman]

Our club is called Darlington FC, but the FA choose to call us by another name. That's their right, but it doesn't change our name.

[theoriginalfatcat]

I see Hereford are in the draw! We could have maybe got them.

[Comfortably_numb]

I don't get it. As fans we're taking the morale high ground, paying off debts incurred by Darlington Football club. And some of us appear indifferent to the 1883.

What is middlesborough's official name these days versus what everyone calls them? Genuine question by the way.

[AIDO]

.... I know many many Darlo supporters and not once in the last few years since that ridiculous FA ruling, have I ever heard those numbers used by any of them. Each to ones own and all that but Darlo's Darlo if you know what I mean .... More and more often these days in newspaper reports, both locally and nationally, the numbers are increasingly ignored. Only official results, Evostik stuff and FA bulletins do we ever see it. Good to see St Neot's call us Darlington Football Club .... Either intentionally or otherwise .... it's good to see.

It is surprising that some fans on here, albeit a handful, seem determined to argue the contrary!

[Bogratsteve]

A couple of lads on twitter asked them to not use the 1883 & they said no problem, credit to them

[Comfortably_numb]

.... I know many many Darlo supporters and not once in the last few years since that ridiculous FA ruling, have I ever heard those numbers used by any of them. Each to ones own and all that but Darlo's Darlo if you know what I mean .... More and more often these days in newspaper reports, both locally and nationally, the numbers are increasingly ignored. Only official results, Evostik stuff and FA bulletins do we ever see it. Good to see St Neot's call us Darlington Football Club .... Either intentionally or otherwise .... it's good to see.

It is surprising that some fans on here, albeit a handful, seem determined to argue the contrary!

I can only assume said fans have never stood on the polam end lamenting a lacklustre draw against Rochdale in the 70's. Nor leaving feethams after pumping Swansea 6-0 years later.

I'm all for progress but the thing that really riles me is the moral point of paying off the debt to retain our history. Perhaps those who embrace the 1883 thing are those who don't care about running up debt and are comfortable with writing it off and starting all over again under a new name as if it didn't matter.

I'm a fan, a lifelong supporter of Darlington FC. Not darlington 1883.

[My opinion]

I see Hereford are in the draw! We could have maybe got them.

If we were up against Hereford it would probably have been an easier game..They are also in the Southern Premier League and St Neots have beaten them twice this season

[Quakerz]

No it aint - our name is Darlington Football Club. Always has been, always will be.

You need to change MKDarlo to MKCanute. We are not Darlington Football Club.
Hopefully, one day we will be again.
Things don't change just because we don't like it.

Oh look, Rumplestiltskin has a new name to call everybody that he doesn't agree with.

You're not clever, talking about about King Canute, or as others may know him King "Cnut"...as if the insult will be "above" most people. You also said the same to me the other day, not that I minded anyhow.

If you're going to insult people at least be up front about it, rather than trying to do it on the sly.

MKDarlo isn't a "Cnut", and neither will we ever be "Darlington 1883".

[lo36789]

Not sure if anyone else caught it but we re-appeared on the Sky Sports Score Centre app for the first time on Saturday since the fans bought the club.

And we were referred to as Darlington.

That gives me hope for the future that 1883 won't follow us in mainstream media.

[Hawkeye]

Our club is called Darlington FC, but the FA choose to call us by another name. That's their right, but it doesn't change our name.

Does that mean Darlington Football Club also has the right to refer to the FA with any name the club sees fit? What would be the repercussions, if any, if the club began referring to the FA as (for example) Madam Twatface?

[Spyman]

Our club is called Darlington FC, but the FA choose to call us by another name. That's their right, but it doesn't change our name.

Does that mean Darlington Football Club also has the right to refer to the FA with any name the club sees fit? What would be the repercussions, if any, if the club began referring to the FA as (for example) Madam Twatface?

Slightly different - we're one of their members, not the other way around. I do find it odd that an organisation can dictate to another organisation what it is allowed to call itself in order to gain membership - but they make their own rules.

[john.dunlop.52]

SUPER DARLINGTON FC